Quote Originally Posted by micky2 View Post
The only auctions that l know that give extra time on bids is one in the USA can't remember the name.
The well know European auction site (cat***i) does something similar too.
If someone bids in the last 10 seconds or so it adds another minute.
Probably to realise good prices for the seller but must be frustrating if you are bidding.

Also the German gun auction site has a setting where if a seller has an item with a high starting price, (but a reasonable price if you win it for that) and no ones bid on it with a few minutes to go it’ll automatically add 3 or 4 days to the listing.
This is to stop last minute bids winning it at the starting price.
Been caught out on that where I waited too long to bid and suddenly there’s another week to wait.

Quote Originally Posted by Turnup View Post
Then our experiences differ. This has happened to me on two occasions, one a rare compass and one a Fortin Barometer.
In 15 years using evilbay regularly I’ve never encountered this. Maybe in the two occasions the seller set up some strange setting on the auction? Or maybe evilbay was trying that out at the time.

Matt